A Memorial Day
Posted: 28 May 2002 at 17:09:07
The long Memorial Day weekend was fun and weird.
Drugs
Last week, I visited with my doctor and he gave me some samples of Clarinex to try for my allergies. I took the first one Friday afternoon and then followed up with others on Saturday night and Sunday night.
To make a long story short, I was completely catatonic Sunday morning and couldn't really get much of anything done until the middle of the afternoon. Monday was a little better, but I still had trouble waking up and moving.
Despite the loss in productivity, it was interesting to me that I could close my eyes at any time and usually within 5-10 seconds I would be in a pseudo-dream state - regardless of how much sleep I'd had.
I quit taking the Clarinex.
Catching the reaction
Yesterday (Memorial Day), our family went to my parents' in Salt Lake to celebrate Memorial Day and my brother's birthday (which is today). My dad barbecued some burgers and hot dogs and we ate with my uncle Bob, aunt Sandra, and my mom's friend Pat.
After dinner, Christine and Maya were playing on my parents' new trampoline. I pulled out the camera to get some pictures and switched the photo mode into the rapid-fire shutter mode that I've played with before so I could get some good shots of them jumping.
Well, Christine didn't want to jump. Instead, she sat down and tried to get Maya to sit down next to her and pose for a picture. Maya wasn't interested and started moving around on the trampoline.
Before this, my brother's youngest son Cole was kicking a ball up onto the roof and catching it when it rolled back down into the yard. He was still doing this when Christine was trying to get Maya to pose with her for the camera, but at that time, for whatever reason, he missed the roof and the ball went under the porch ceiling and hit one of my mom's wind chimes, completely shattering it and making a lot of glass-breaking noise.
I'm taking a few pictures while this is all occurring, but instead of catching the real exciting action of the ball hitting the wind chimes and shattering them, I had the camera focused on my wife - whose dramatic reaction to the incident is now immortalized as a sequence of JPEG files... below.